Permissions problems after domain change

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

mwoehlke wrote:
> Chuck wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> Chuck wrote:
>>>> My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I
>>>> log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own
>>>> files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I
>>>> need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all
>>>> question marks when I do an "ls -l". Can anyone help me fix this? TIA.
>>>>
>>>> $ ls -laF
>>>> total 64
>>>> drwx------+ 17 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Aug 15 10:21 ./
>>>> drwx------+  3 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Apr  6 17:10 ../
>>>> -rw-------   1 CHamilto Users         6998 Jul 13 09:50 .bash_history
>>>> -rw-------   1 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Oct  7  2004 .ICEauthority
>>>> -rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users   354 Oct  7  2004 .XSM-Default
>>>> -rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users    93 Oct 11  2004 .Xdefaults
>>>> [snipped]
>>>> drwx------+  2 CHamilto ????????         0 Aug 15 12:28 .keychain/
>>>> drwx------+  2 CHamilto ????????         0 Jul 26 09:12 .ssh/
>>>
>>> Looks to me like you just need to recreate your '/etc/group'  and
>>> '/etc/passwd' files.  Try:
>>>
>>> mkpasswd -l -d >/etc/passwd
>>> mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group
>>>
>>> If this takes too long, look at the -D flag for each so you can specify
>>> the domain.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't seem like my versions of these commands support the -D option.
>>
>> $ mkpasswd -l -D
>> mkpasswd: unknown option -- D
>> Try 'mkpasswd --help' for more information.
>>
>> $ mkgroup -l -D
>> mkgroup: unknown option -- D
>> Try 'mkgroup --help' for more information.
> 
> Did you try 'man mkpasswd'? It looks like the correct syntax is 
> 'mkpasswd -l -d [<domain> ...]'
> 


Right.  Sorry folks.  I'm away from my Windows machine so I'm doing this
from memory.  The "-d" alone works though.  I only mentioned adding the
domain name as an option in case your domains are huge and/or you have
ones that are now unreachable.


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